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The Unleashing

by Shelly Laurenston

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Series: Call of Crows (1)

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Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn't for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die. In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig "Vig" Rundstrom has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one way to save her life-but she might not like it. Signing up with the Crows will get Kera a new set of battle buddies, cackling, gossiping, squabbling, party-hearty women. With wings. So not the Marines. But Vig can't give up on someone as special as Kera. With a storm of oh-crap magic speeding straight for L.A., survival will depend on combining their strengths, Kera's discipline, Vig's loyalty...and the Crows' sheer love of battle. Boy, are they in trouble.… (more)
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I loved it. All of it. Can I have more of it?

Also...thralling. New favorite word. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
When I read the sample of this book, I didn't hesitate and bought the book itself right away. After reading it... I must say, such a damn good decision it was!! :D
I mean, I laughed my ass off, I facepalmed, I scowled and pretty much everything in between. The Crows are just bloody (you can take that literally) awesome :D

Worldbuilding was good, it takes place in present time Earth, only regular humans have no idea supes are living among them. Everything was well detailed and well described.

Character development was very good. Kera goes through a lot of changes and while she had (a bit of) a stick up her arse at the start, she mellowed out soon enough thanks to Vig, our yummy hottie of the day. Of course, it is understandable and not that easy to come to terms with not only being killed in an alley behind your shitty job but living your second life in honour of the Goddess Skuld... as a Crow... that can fly... Fun times :D
But at least she has her dog Brodie with her (though she turns traitor soon enough, bad dog! :D )

While the book has a high PNR content, I think of it more an ideal mix of PNR and UF. I just looooove mythology :D

Pacing and flow were good, finished this book in one go so it had me hooked :D
Good balance between conversation and action.

The book itself was well written with no (noticeable) errors. And yes, there is sex described in the book (if that is important to you).

All in all a very enjoyable read! Already have book 2 in my TBR list, and seeing it will be about our lovely and deadly Jace, I'm so looking forward to it! ( )
  Nemerith | Oct 30, 2023 |
A wonderful read!

The world that Shelly Laurenston has created is full of detail. Keri died and became a crow, a winged female warrior in service to the Norse God Skund. They are the Strike teams or hit squad of the pantheon. The Ravens are the male equivalent but in service to Odin. Oh, and the guys don't have to die first.
While learning how to be a Crow and falling in love with a Raven, Keri and her new sisters are called upon to find missing power objects and discover an old old being trying to come to our world.
The book does end on a cliffhanger. ( )
  eetzel | Sep 1, 2023 |
Almost really good. Will read the next one, but it's missing something, idk what tho. ( )
  msmattoon | Aug 24, 2023 |
This book was interesting esp with all the Norse mythology from a different POV.
And it's Shelly Laurenston so there's some crazy opinionated women and crazy things going on, steamy romance, plus fighting. Not to mention vikings ( )
  StarKnits | Jul 24, 2023 |
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Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn't for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die. In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig "Vig" Rundstrom has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one way to save her life-but she might not like it. Signing up with the Crows will get Kera a new set of battle buddies, cackling, gossiping, squabbling, party-hearty women. With wings. So not the Marines. But Vig can't give up on someone as special as Kera. With a storm of oh-crap magic speeding straight for L.A., survival will depend on combining their strengths, Kera's discipline, Vig's loyalty...and the Crows' sheer love of battle. Boy, are they in trouble.

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Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn’t for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die.

In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig “Vig” Rundstöm has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one way to save her life—but she might not like it. Signing up with the Crows will get Kera a new set of battle buddies: cackling, gossiping, squabbling, party-hearty women. With wings. So not the Marines.

But Vig can’t give up on someone as special as Kera. With a storm of oh-crap magic speeding straight for L.A., survival will depend on combining their strengths: Kera’s discipline, Vig’s loyalty… and the Crows’ sheer love of battle. Boy, are they in trouble
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